[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Alfred Falk]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote in
news:50243fe6$0$3101$e4fe514c at dreader34.news.xs4all.nl: 

> On 9-8-2012 21:00, Paul Sture wrote:
>> FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by
>> total strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me
>> for rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't
>> born then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".
> 
> How old were they, around 50~60?
> 
> 
>> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
>> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.
> 
> There's a joke: After 1945, everybody was in 'the resistance'!
> 
>   - MG



Jokes aside, an interesting podcast (30 minutes) on BBC's "Things we
forgot to remember": 
    	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017lbdk